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Why The Angry Kodava Voter Turned Against The Congress

Kodagu district saw a consolidation of votes for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded Karnataka elections, thanks to former chief minister Siddaramaiah’s decision to honour the memory of the controversial eighteenth-century king, Tipu Sultan. The celebration of Tipu Jayanti had sparked heavy violence in the district in November 2015 and angered the Kodavas in the district. The district had three assembly constituencies – Madikeri, Virajpet, and Somwarpet – until 2008, after which the delimitation of constituencies was carried out. Somwarpet then became a part of Madikeri constituency, and the district came to be represented by two constituencies alone. Kodavas and Gowdas are the two major communities in Kodagu, and both of them backed the BJP in the last three assembly elections as well as in the Lok Sabha election. The scales tilted in the BJP’s favour after Kodavas raised the demand for a separate state, or a hill council, or at least an autonomous region. ...

यदि भाजपा कर्नाटक चुनाव जीती तो ...?

कर्नाटक में  चुनावी बिगुल  बजते ही बीजेपी और कांग्रेस ने एक-दूसरे पर सियासी हमले तेज कर दिए हैं. कांग्रेस के लिए  कर्नाटक की लड़ाई  जहां अस्तित्‍व के सवाल से जुड़ी है वहीं बीजेपी के लिए भी यह चुनाव किसी चुनौती से कम नहीं है. ऐसा इसलिए क्‍योंकि हाल में यूपी उपचुनावों में गोरखपुर और फूलपुर में करारी हार के बाद बीजेपी पर दबाव बढ़ गया है. ऐसे में बीजेपी इस दबाव से उबरने के लिए किसी भी सूरत में चुनाव को जीतने का प्रयास करेगी क्‍योंकि अगले एक साल के भीतर 2019 में लोकसभा चुनाव होने हैं. सिर्फ इतना ही नहीं इस साल के अंत में मध्‍य प्रदेश और राजस्‍थान जैसे बड़े राज्‍यों में चुनाव होने हैं. लिहाजा इन चुनावों से ऐन पहले कर्नाटक जैसे बड़े राज्‍य में बीजेपी की जीत से पार्टी का मनोबल बढ़ेगा. उसके बाद बीजेपी यह कहने की स्थिति में भी होगी कि मोदी लहर का जादू बरकरार है. कांग्रेस की दिक्‍कत पंजाब के बाद कर्नाटक ऐसा बड़ा राज्‍य है जहां कांग्रेस की सरकार है. कर्नाटक समेत कुल चार राज्‍यों में कांग्रेस की सरकारें हैं. ऐसे में यदि कांग्रेस के हाथ से कर्नाटक निकल जाता है तो 2019 के आम चुना...

How Siddaramaiah Turned Karnataka Into A Haven For Islamism

Rohith Chakrathirtha Under the current chief minister, the state has been caught looking away when unabashed and violent display of Islamism has been carried out by various outfits The National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials conducted a raid in Kerala on 17 March 2016, during which they arrested a person called K V Abdul Jaleel. The reason? Jaleel had assembled 21 men in April 2013 and imparted a special training that taught the men how to make bombs and detonate them in heavily populated areas without being noticed, besides tutoring them in the intricacies of guncraft - from country pistols to AK-47 and more. You might ask who these 21 men were. They were all members of Popular Front of India (PFI) and/or the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI). The case is known in NIA records as the  Narath training camp case . Initially, the probe in the murder of an innocent Hindu activist, named Sharat Madivala, in Karnataka’s Bantval was going nowhere. It might als...

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